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Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com for all

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Speaker 1: the latest news and information. Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one O four point nine one

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Speaker 2: Joining us on the line right now is the Lord

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Speaker 2: Mayor of Darwin convat scarlesk.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to ukon.

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Speaker 4: Good morning Katie now com.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking a lot this morning about swell tourism

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Speaker 2: and how busy it was over the weekend and does

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Speaker 2: I understand that the Council is looking at different ways

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Speaker 2: to promote Darwin as a tourist destination, not only in

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Speaker 2: an effort to try to I guess draw tourism here

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Speaker 2: to Darwin, but also to try and get some of

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Speaker 2: those appropriate industries and commercial opportunities.

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Speaker 3: What are you looking at.

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Speaker 4: Doing Well, we've been doing that one for a number

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Speaker 4: of months now, About two years ago we went to

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Speaker 4: traveling shows with the government. We've been talking to people

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Speaker 4: in the state. We promote our Darwin wherever we can,

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Speaker 4: and we're trying to work together with the industry, the

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Speaker 4: hospitality industry al Fresco were promoting people ideas, have ideas

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Speaker 4: with the people how can actually activate Darwin and how

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Speaker 4: this one can attract tourists at the moment. If you

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Speaker 4: notice the temperatures down south, it's freezing cold. The other thing,

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Speaker 4: of course, is people can't go anywhere. They can't go

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Speaker 4: to Bali or to Singapore. They travel in Australia. What

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Speaker 4: a great opportunity for us to go down south, all

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Speaker 4: through the media, the social media, to promote our city

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Speaker 4: as the place to be. And I tell you it

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Speaker 4: has worked because there are a lot of tourists in town.

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Speaker 4: You can't get a caravan, pack space, you can't get

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Speaker 4: a hotel. The other day I was stopped in the

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Speaker 4: street by a group of Greeks from Melbourne and they

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Speaker 4: asked me if I in no way if they can

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Speaker 4: get a car because they couldn't get a car. So

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Speaker 4: things are working. But we should be complacent because we

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Speaker 4: never know. In the middle of next year the borders

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Speaker 4: will open and people can travel again. But if people

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Speaker 4: realize that down can offer a lot more than just

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Speaker 4: a stopover, then they can actually come here.

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Speaker 3: Well, And I guess you know that is the other thing.

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Speaker 2: If we are anticipating that the international travel might not returnable,

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Speaker 2: it's looking as though it might' return until the middle

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Speaker 2: of next year.

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Speaker 3: It is having an impact.

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Speaker 2: But we've got to make sure that we're doing all

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Speaker 2: we can to try to entice people to Darwin Con.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what specifically is the council trying to do

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Speaker 2: at this point in time or what measures have you

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Speaker 2: guys put in place in an effort to try and

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 4: So okay, So our city we have done a lot

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Speaker 4: of work in the social media by promoting our city,

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Speaker 4: putting beautiful landscapes, photographs. And the other thing we do

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Speaker 4: is when we see somebody tourists actually using our city photographs,

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Speaker 4: we talk to them to actually we can use it

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Speaker 4: in ours in our social media. Social media has been

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Speaker 4: a very powerful weapon and we know how to use it.

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Speaker 4: And you know what, it is not restricted by borders.

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Speaker 4: I can put something in Facebook here in Dowwi and

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Speaker 4: can be seen as far away internationally but also the

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Speaker 4: most important in Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane. And the

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Speaker 4: other thing we find out is we have to be adaptable.

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Speaker 4: Now we know very well people don't want to go

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Speaker 4: to Western Australia because they're afraid that they might close

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Speaker 4: their borders. Is a case of COVID appears somewhere Western

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Speaker 4: Australia so they tend to come here. Make things easier

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Speaker 4: for them to come here, providing the opportunity to come here,

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Speaker 4: show casing that what we've got to offer. It's a

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Speaker 4: very very powerful weapon for us. But tracturist there in Daway.

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Speaker 2: Now, con we've got a message from a listener and

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Speaker 2: it says it's about CC straight in the city. It

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Speaker 2: says CC straight in the city at Smith Straight ends

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Speaker 2: at the Smith Straight end. Sorry, so CC straight in

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Speaker 2: the city at Smith Straight end. It says that it's

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Speaker 2: one way straight Kevin A straight doesn't have a sign.

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Speaker 3: What's going on as that listener.

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Speaker 4: Well, we wanted to protect the old three that's a

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Speaker 4: cisy street, so we're putting a footpath around it now

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Speaker 4: that restricts the street. The street is designed many many

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Speaker 4: years ago, does comply with the two way street with

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Speaker 4: today's standard. So we're going to be one way out

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Speaker 4: to Smith Street.

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Speaker 3: So it's going to turn into a way straight.

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Speaker 4: No no, no, it would be two ways up to

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Speaker 4: the tree and then only an exits mid street. Probably

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Speaker 4: it currently works undertaken to do the football, and when

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Speaker 4: this football is completed, there will be appropriate sign. It's

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Speaker 4: indicating two ways one way right.

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Speaker 2: All right, Conor, I understand that tonight is bad Nights.

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Speaker 2: What's that all about?

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Speaker 4: Do you like bats? Not really likes because they used

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Speaker 4: to make a mess of my car. But if you

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Speaker 4: really like bats, if you want to go buddy about.

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Speaker 4: But the only thing to go is go to it

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Speaker 4: Poin Reserve and you can see the bads in full action.

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Speaker 4: They're protective species. They're unique in that when people come

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Speaker 4: here and they actually think they are dogs or cats

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Speaker 4: flying when they splain because they've never seen anything like

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Speaker 4: that in the Southern States. But we really really like

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Speaker 4: to our bats, and what we're going to do it

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Speaker 4: local butt enthusiasts and Alice Cotton will kick off the

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Speaker 4: nights with live music. Then they talk about local bats

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Speaker 4: from experts who know everything, budgs and researchers, and it's

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Speaker 4: a very they opportunity to get close and persional with

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Speaker 4: some of our beautiful flying foxes as we call them all,

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Speaker 4: but as the experts tad to call.

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Speaker 2: Them, well, combat scarlets. Lord Mayor of Darwin, good to

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Speaker 2: speak with you this morning. We'll catch up with you

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Speaker 2: again next week.

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Speaker 4: I think you catch with me earlier because tonight we're

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Speaker 4: going to discuss our budget, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 4: of that budget, and we're going to make a huge

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Speaker 4: of announcements tomorrow about our huge capital work programs, about

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Speaker 4: our rates and what more we're going to do to

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Speaker 4: make down a place to leave cold.

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Speaker 2: And let's lock it in for tomorrow then May so

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Speaker 2: we'll catch up with you tomorrow morning to find out

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Speaker 2: what I gets past in the budget tonight. Thank you

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Speaker 2: for the heads out.

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Speaker 4: You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: Good on you, con Thank you